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Legerdemain: National Flash Fiction Day Anthology 2021

This year we're bringing spellbinding tales on the theme of 'magic' by authors from all over the world! From fortune tellers to ghosts, performance shenanigans to the magic of science, there's something for everyone in this year's anthology!

Available for pre-order very soon!

Artwork by our artist-in-residence Jeanette Sheppard.

 

After reading so many stunning stories on the theme of MAGIC, Nod Ghosh and I have finalised our selections!

Congratulations to all the authors listed below!

We would like to thank everybody who submitted their stories for consideration for this year's anthology. Times continue to be very challenging for us all, and I personally found it an absolute joy to be able to immerse myself in the wonderful stories and worlds you all created. Thank you for sharing your work with us!

To celebrate our tenth National Flash Fiction Day we will also be featuring stories from past anthology editors. These stories will either be on the theme of magic, or throwbacks to stories from past anthologies, or, as luck may have it, a combination of both!

We'll also be including the winning stories from this year's micro fiction competition, and judging is well under way!

We hope that you will all join us for the launch of the anthology on National Flash Fiction Day later this year!

Janine Kovac A Night at the Nutcracker
Marie Gethins All That is Earthly
Claire Carroll Deference Ritual
Jolene McIlwain Few Things are More [Stressful] Magical Than Building a House
Sarah Salway Knitting
Jennifer Brutschy Life After the Sun Doesn't Blind Us
Chris Barkley Lumbar-sick
Linda McMullen Magic Act
Gaynor Jones Me and Joe and the Rainbow
Epiphany Ferrell Renaissance
Jacqueline Doyle Spelling Lachlan
Sam Payne The Acrobats are Talking About Love
Rebecca Field The White Rabbit
Garry Cox Tinder
Faye Brinsmead What She's Trying to Tell Me
Edward Barnfield Magic Box
Audrey Niven Jesus of Barnet
Farhana Khalique Everybody
Chrissy Sturt Womb Tombs
Karen Jones Teeth and Claws
Keely O’Shaughnessy What If We Breathed Through Our Skin?
A.B. Kyazze Edmundo's Predicament
Nan Wigington Beneath Smoke, Mirrors
Iona Rule Bad Blood
Catherine Ogston An Orkney Wise Woman Tells It As It Is
Lisa Ferranti Disappearing Act
Cheryl Markosky Everyday Magic
Morgan Quinn Not Every Missing Thing is Lost
Rachael Dunlop The Poet
Stephanie Carty The Science of Self
Emily Devane This is How They Meet
Natalie Reilly-Johnson Turning to Glass
Valerie Griffin Whispers to the Moon
Debra A. Daniel Ann tells Me to Burn Sage in the House Where I Live With My Fiance
Katie Piper Bath Man
Michael Loveday Be More Cup
Claire Polders If You Think Stars Can't Clap You're Not Listening
Susie Morgan Your own kind of magic
Laurie Babcock al fresco
Dawn Siofra North Frozen Child
Martha Lane Mammy's theme tune is played by violins
Morgan Quinn String Theory
Jo Ward The Change
Caroline Gonda The End of Magic
Robert Carroll The Getaway Car
E. E. Rhodes The Magic Circles
Mark Stewart Tunnel of Love
Sherri Turner Wallface
Kinneson Lalor Winter
Charlie Swailes Without and Within
Claire Carroll To be cut cleanly in half like a geode
Jenny Woodhouse To see the world in a Chelsea Bun
Diane Simmons Support
Jeanette Sheppard Searching for Sky Lights